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Date of source: Tuesday, April 20, 1999
Over the past few years, Al-Azhar has been the venue of very serious confrontations between hard-liner and moderate sheikhs and scholars. This confrontation reached a peak during a seminar where professor Abdel Mo’ti Bayoumi, Dean of the School of Theology at Al-Azhar, presented his new theory of...
Date of source: Thursday, April 15, 1999 to Wednesday, April 21, 1999
Muhammed Sayyid Tantawi, the sheikh of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious religious institution has called on Muslim leaders to declare jihad (holy war) in support of their Muslim brethren in war-torn Kosovo.
Date of source: Friday, April 9, 1999
Interview about the issue of divorce (Al-Khul’a).
Date of source: Monday, April 5, 1999
In this interview Mohammed Hassan talks about the current state of Islam work worldwide and says that the existence of several Islamic groups is a healthy phenomena. He says the United States will fall down because this is God’s law. He also says that Muslims are responsible for the retardation of...
Date of source: Saturday, April 3, 1999 to Friday, April 9, 1999
Sheikhs who had denounced many intellectuals and creative minds as apostates have now started to pronounce each other as apostates. New is the apostasy campaign waged against Dr. Nosseir is because she says that in this era women have become ministers and prime ministers as well as university...
Date of source: Saturday, April 3, 1999 to Friday, April 9, 1999
The author of this article argues that the playing of taped recitals of the Qur’an in public transport, shops, etc., is inconsistent with the purity, holiness and status of the Book. Those who promote this are Muta’slimeen (Pharisees).
Date of source: Sunday, March 28, 1999
The Coptic Orthodox Pope, meeting the Sheikh of Al-Azhar, stressed the "spirit of love, harmony and brotherhood that characterizes relationships between Egyptian people throughout history ... that succeeded in containing and overcoming attempts at creating divisions between Egyptians."
Date of source: Tuesday, March 30, 1999
The Governor of Northern Sinai is working to make the anniversary celebrations of the entry of Islam to Egypt consistent with the holiness of the event honoring the receiving of Islam and its armies.
Date of source: Monday, March 29, 1999
Egypt celebrates the passage of 14 centuries since the Arab Conquest of Egypt "to promote [its] historical value ... and to affirm that Egypt is the cradle of religions..." Celebrations counter the argument that the aim of the Arab conquest of Egypt was to loot its wealth and conquer its Copts.
11. Minister of Education Dr. Hussein Bahaa’ Al-Din: Copts are present in the educational syllabuses
Date of source: Saturday, March 20, 1999
The Minister of Education Dr. Hussein Bahaa’ Al-Din insists that the existing educational syllabuses are against extremism, addiction and ethnic discrimination, and teach tolerance and that while there is a deficiency in some syllabuses he has charged d the Higher Committee for History with the...
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Emerging Perspectives on Intercultural and Interreligious Relations
Dialogue Across Borders is a database of summary translations of Arabic newspaper articles with references to their sources about intercultural and interreligious relations, focusing primarily but not exclusively on Muslim-Christian relations. The database also contains articles with editorial analysis and interviews on the subject.